Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/42180752
Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? - Divisions by zero
This is quite recent but I’ve been browsing Lemmy a bunch lately and quite often
I see extreme grammatical errors. I’m not talking about like, incorrect
stylistic choices between commas and dashes, or an improper use of ellipses or
missing commas or incorrect use of apostrophes in its/it’s or in multiple
posessive articles or just plain typos or any nitpicky grammar nazi shit like
that, but just basic spelling specifically. It’s one thing when you can’t spell
some pretty uncommon words and you’re too lazy to look it up and/or use
autocorrect, but it’s a completely different league to misspell very basic
words, very recently I saw someone spell “extreme” as “extream” which is just
kind of baffling, I actually can’t even imagine how one would make such a
mistake? And it’s not been an isolated thing either, I’ve seen several instances
like that lately. Am I going crazy? Is it just me?
You are going crazy. I’ve been on the internet since like 1992 and have spent many, many years reading forums and playing text-based role playing games, and this is very not new, spelling has always been awful because it’s not a formal medium where that stuff matters to most people. If anything it’s probably gotten better since the advent of smart phones with built in auto-correct.
OP’s browsing habits likely recently changed to a place on the web with more English as a second language users. Those kinds of misspellings are pretty common with people who learned a lot of their English from streaming Youtube and other online shows
I’ve always experienced the opposite - native English speakers are horrible at spelling because they don’t have to put any effort into comprehending the language, vs non-native speakers who frequently have to take ESL tests for either academia, work, or immigration, and therefore had more exposure to spelling practice.
Bruh slept through 13 years of English lessons 😂
Lessons are forgotten fast. Ask an adult to do 3 digit multiplication and watch them fumble. Ask about geometry and they’ll ask Google for a calculator. I don’t remember how to do projectile physics. All the same for English. If all a person does is speak the language while writing very simple messages (in comparison to English essays), the memory of complex synthesis is lost fast. If they’re not continuing to do those tasks in life, it’s gone.
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